Japan Display Inc.

Sony Corporation

Tohoku University

Dexerials Corporation

Kentaro Okuyama

Yudai Numata

Tenfu Nakamura

Hiroki Sugiyama

Kojiro Ikeda

Yoshihide Ohue

Akira Ebisui

Manabu Mizuno

Shogo Shinkai

Harumi Sato

Hiroshi Inamura

Akira Sakaigawa

Tae Kurokawa

Tomoaki Suzuki

Koji Kitamura

Hideki Kaneko

Yuji Takahashi

Taizo Nishimura

Tomoyuki Tada

Tatsuo Uchida

Takahiro Ishinabe

Tohru Kawakami

Koichi Igeta

Shinpei Nagatani

Hisanori Kawakami

Yuuji Oomori

Zhengyi Gou

Mamoru Mizuno

Masaaki Kabe

Tatsuya Yata

Mitsunari Hoshi

Norimasa Furukawa

Takayuki Imai

Kei Obata

Jun Shimizu

Masato Kesho

Kentaro Kawai

Hiroya Morimoto

Tatsunori Muramoto

Masahiro Ikeda

Masanobu Ikeda

Naoki Takada

Yoshiro Aoki

Shinya Suzuki

Nobuko Fukuoka

Yoshihisa Sato

Yasushi Iwakabe

Mitsuo Arima

Ichiro Murakami

Masashi Enomoto

Masaharu Senoue

Kazuki Ichihara

Naoyuki Asano

Akito Kuriyama

Junichi Inoue

Makoto Shinoda

Yukari Tsunoda

Kasumi Hase

Hitoshi Katakura

Naoki Ikawa

Tomomi Suzuki

Moriaki Okuno

Chiharu Kaburagi

According to one embodiment, a display device includes first and second substrates and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes pixel electrodes and a first alignment film. The second substrate includes a common electrode and a second alignment film. The liquid crystal layer is provided between the alignment films and contains a streaky polymer and liquid crystal molecules. The first alignment film includes flat areas. A first director of the liquid crystal molecules located near the flat areas is substantially parallel to a horizontal plane in a state where no potential difference is formed between the pixel electrodes and the common electrode.

Display device and manufacturing method thereof

According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer including polymers and liquid crystal molecules, and a light-emitting element. The first substrate includes a transparent substrate, a scanning line, a signal line crossing the scanning line, a switching element electrically connected to the scanning line and the signal line, an organic insulating film overlapping the switching element, and a pixel electrode electrically connected to the switching element. A thickness of the organic insulating film located between the transparent substrate and the pixel electrode is less than a thickness of the organic insulating film overlapping the switching element.

Display device including a liquid crystal layer including polymers and liquid crystal molecules and switching between a scattering state and a transmitting state

According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first transparent substrate including a first main surface, a second transparent substrate including a first end portion, a liquid crystal layer containing strip-shaped polymers and liquid crystal molecules, a third transparent substrate including a second end portion and a second main surface, a first light-emitting element and a first light guide. The first light guide includes a first surface and a second surface. A height from the first main surface to the second surface is less than a height from the first main surface to the second main surface.

Display device

According to one embodiment, a display device including a liquid crystal layer containing strip-like polymers and liquid crystal molecules, a third transparent substrate, and a transparent layer disposed on the third transparent substrate and having a refractive index lower than that of the third transparent substrate, wherein the transparent layer includes strip portions which include first and second end portions, and a middle portion, the first end portion has a first width greater than a width of the middle portion, the second end portion has a second width greater than the width of the middle portion, and first wiring lines overlap the strip portions, respectively and extend in a same direction.

According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first transparent substrate, a display panel, a first fixing member, and a first light source unit. The first transparent substrate has a first light incident surface which is a side surface, and is formed to be curved. The display panel has flexibility. The first fixing member fixes the display panel to the first transparent substrate. The first light source unit is opposed to the first light incident surface to emit light to the first light incident surface.

According to an aspect, a display device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a light source disposed so that light is incident on a side surface of the first substrate or a side surface of the second substrate; a first electrode provided on the first substrate; and second electrodes provided on the second substrate. The liquid crystal layer includes polymer-dispersed liquid crystals including a polymer network formed in a mesh shape and liquid crystal molecules held in a dispersed manner in gaps of the polymer network. A plurality of first slits of the second electrodes that are provided for each pixel are arranged at predetermined intervals in a first direction, and the first slits extend in a second direction intersecting the first direction.

A display device includes: an array substrate; a counter substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the array substrate and the counter substrate; and a light source. The array substrate includes: signal lines; scanning lines; a grid-shaped organic insulating layer that extends along the scanning lines and the signal lines and overlies the scanning lines and the signal lines; pixel electrodes provided in regions surrounded by the scanning lines and the signal lines; and a first orientation film that covers the pixel electrodes. A portion of each pixel electrodes overlaps a slant surface of the organic insulating layer. The counter substrate includes: a common electrode overlapping the respective pixel electrodes; a protective film that has an insulating capability and a light transmitting capability and covers a side of the common electrode facing the array substrate at least in the display region; and a second orientation film that covers the protective film.

According to one embodiment, a display device including a first substrate including a first pixel and a second pixel, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer containing polymer and liquid crystal molecules, and a light emitting element, wherein the second pixel is located between the light emitting element and the first pixel, the first substrate includes a switching element including a semiconductor layer arranged in the first pixel, a pixel electrode, and a first light shielding portion arranged in the second pixel and being adjacent to the semiconductor layer, the first light shielding portion is located between the semiconductor layer and the light emitting element in planar view and located on a side closer to the first pixel than a center of the second pixel.

According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display panel including an array substrate, a counter substrate, a liquid crystal layer between the array substrate and the counter substrate, and spacers projecting from the counter substrate toward the array substrate; a light-transmitting glass base member bonded to the display panel; and a light source that includes a light guide provided along a side surface of the array substrate, a side surface of the counter substrate, or a side surface of the glass base member, and light emitters facing the light guide. The array substrate includes: signal lines; scan lines; and switching elements coupled to the scan lines and the signal lines. The spacers are arranged in positions facing the respective switching elements and are provided with adhesion layers provided such that the counter substrate and the array substrate adhere to each other.

A display device comprises a display panel including a liquid crystal layer between a pair of substrates and a heater including a plurality of electrodes arranged at a distance from each other and disposed adjacent to the display panel. The plurality of electrodes includes a first electrode heated at a first temperature and a second electrode heated at a second temperature lower than the first temperature. Each of the plurality of electrodes may be a transparent electrode on a transparent substrate.

Display device and driving method thereof

According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a sealant formed bonding the first substrate with the second substrate, a liquid crystal layer surrounded by the sealant, and a light emitting module. The sealant includes a first portion, a second portion opposed to the first portion with the liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween, an inlet formed in the second portion, and a filling material filled in the inlet. The liquid crystal layer is arranged over a display area where an image is displayed, a first area between the display area and the first portion, and a second area between the display area and the second portion, in plan view. A first width of the first area is larger than a width of the second area.

According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first display panel, and a polarizer opposed to the first display panel and having a transmission axis for transmitting linearly polarized light. The first display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposed to the first substrate, and a first liquid crystal layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate and including streak-like polymers and liquid crystal molecules. An extension direction of the polymers is substantially orthogonal to the transmission axis.

Display device including streak-like polymers with liquid crystal molecules

According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate including a first end portion and a second end portion located at a position different from the first end portion, a polymer dispersed liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a light source device located above the first substrate and disposed along the first end portion, and a light-shielding member disposed on at least a part of the second end portion.

According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposed to the first substrate, a sealing member bonding the first substrate with the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. From an aspect, the sealing member includes a first sealing member surrounding a display area including a plurality of pixels, and a second sealing member formed of a same material as the first sealing member and arranged in the display area.

A display device is provided and includes display panel including first substrate, lower electrode on first substrate, lower alignment layer with first alignment direction on lower electrode, second substrate, upper electrode on second substrate, upper alignment layer with first alignment direction on upper electrode, and liquid crystalline polymers with striped structure and liquid crystal molecules which are aligned in first alignment direction, and which are disposed between first and second substrates; light source unit disposed at side of display panel and configured to emit incident light which is not polarized; and light guided structure disposed between side of display panel and light source unit, wherein light source unit is disposed in parallel to first alignment direction and light which is emitted from display panel is polarized in first alignment direction.

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Tokyo, Japan

Kentaro Okuyama